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Week 2: Population – population shrinkage, rural depopulation, aging society
Statistical Handbook of Japan:
Read Chapter 2, “Population” and Chapter 15, “Social Security, Health Care, and Public Hygiene”
Videos
Kate Raworth: “A Healthy Economy Should be Designed to Thrive, Not Grow”
Academic Articles (for the Active Learning Hours Portfolio):
Peter Matanle, “Towards an Asia-Pacific ‘Depopulation Dividend’ in the 21st Century”
Muramatsu & Akiyama, “Japan: Super-Aging Society Preparing for the Future”
Susanne Klien, “Living the Life of My Choice: Lifestyle Migrants in Rural Japan Balancing between Local Commitment and Transnational Cosmopolitanism”
Kate Raworth (Video), “A Healthy Economy Should Be Designed to Thrive, Not Grow”